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A38 Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch) records, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 90.06.11

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1890-06-11. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1890-6/1890/90-06-11-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

11/6/90.
As I have spent so much money in incidental expenses and otherwise, dear Mr Macdonald, for the Society, would you spare me a few copies of the last and the new publication of the Society? I can send for them. It would help on my litterary interchanges.
Regardfully always your
Ferd. von Mueller
Kindly remember me to the venerable Captain.
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Captain Crawford Pasco? The two paragraphs that follow are on separate pages and may be part of a separate letter (or letters).
I am sorry that Mr Lindsay does not express himself more enthusiastic about the Leichhardt-Search. I am only anxious about the welfare of our branch . Kindly tell Mr Scarr and Mr Panton,
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Joseph Panton was at this time Vice-President of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, and Frank Scarr was a member of the Council.
that I had no pronounced opinion about Mr Lindts wish from the commencement but liked to show him every courtesy. Still it was not much he asked, and perhaps he would accept ½
The very fact, that Sir Will Macgregor
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i.e., MacGregor.
adds discoveries to discoveries, shows the undesirability of
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aiding deleted after of.
our withdrawing from New Guinea[n] work, which will make far more show than any now left to be done in Central Australia.